Permission, Personal Space and Help-Seeking – Year 1

Eight core lessons move from noticing boundaries to independent permission and help-seeking demonstrations. Two clearly labelled optional lessons reinforce the same learning through a shared pretend project and a decision reminder. All essential assessment is complete by Lesson 8.

Worked examples separate taking a pretend photo from sharing it, show that silence or maybe is not a clear yes, and reinforce stopping after no or a changed answer. The protective-choice lessons teach stopping a worrying interaction, moving towards safe support if possible, and telling a trusted adult. Children practise who, what and where in a help message and seeking another appropriate adult when support is unavailable.

Use puppets, safe mock objects and drawn offline screens. No peer touching, real posting, accounts, harmful content or required private disclosures are needed. Read aloud and accept speech, pointing, gesture, drawings, symbols, communication devices or adult scribing. The rubric assesses concepts and protective strategies; it does not penalise a communication mode or score compliance. Adults retain responsibility for safeguarding.

What's included

• 10 separate editable lesson presentations, 10 slides each: When to ask; Ask clearly; Give or deny; Accept the answer; Protective choices; Get useful help; Permission and help assessment; Remember and transfer; Permission in a shared project (Optional); Pause, clarify and get help (Optional).
• Editable 24-slide quiz: 10 questions with immediate sample-answer slides, including two new applications, plus instructions and reflection.
• 46-page Unit Plan PDF: clean contents page, teaching overview, file/resource guide, 10 complete timed lesson plans, game key and assessment guidance.
• 2 colour displays: Permission, Space and Help; One request, one choice.
• 8 fictional case cards (C01–C08) on two colour pages: borrowing, personal space, taking/sharing a pretend photo, an unclear answer, a worrying message, a changed answer and another adult helper.
• 3-page colour game, Choose, Explain and Check: rules and a worked turn; Our discussion mat with six ordered stops; 8 Challenge cards.
• 10 low-ink worksheets: When to ask; Ask clearly; Give or deny; Accept the answer; Protective choices; Get useful help; Permission and help practice; Remember and transfer; Shared project (Optional); Decision reminder (Optional).
• 10 matched answer pages placed immediately after their worksheets, with red ANSWERS in the Name field and red sample responses in the original response spaces.
• 2-page permission-and-help assessment using a new ruler request and fictional offline-screen concern, plus a specific three-level marking rubric.
• 170-page complete Preview PDF, covering the Unit Plan, all 10 lesson decks and the quiz. The clean Table of Contents JPEG is also supplied.

Teacher benefits

Each lesson has its own ready-to-use editable presentation and matching timed plan. Worksheets have immediate sample answers. The included game supports explanation, while the assessment guide distinguishes communication support from conceptual prompting.

Formats and page counts

PPTX, PDF and JPG. 170 teaching/resource pages and slides in total: 46 Unit Plan pages + 100 lesson slides + 24 quiz slides. The 170-page Preview repeats this content for viewing. Answer keys included.

Teaching duration: 8 core lessons of approximately 50 minutes, plus 2 optional 50-minute reinforcement lessons. Adjust pacing for the class.

Learning focus and classroom use

Specific permission; legitimate yes/no/not now; stopping when permission changes; respecting personal space; adult-supported protective choices; useful help messages. Teach with safe mock materials and use independent demonstrations alongside the quiz. Optional work is reinforcement only.